It’s a rare occasion when I sit down to watch movies on Netflix (after all, there’s still more Umbrella Academy episodes to watch!) but I thought I’d take a break from new TV and check out a couple of interesting movies that the streamer has released to my living room. Spiderhead It’s surprising to me…
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Frozen 2 – Movie Review
After watching the first Frozen, did you imagine a sequel? What would have been the story? I didn’t think that a sequel was needed, and I guess the only storylines that I imagined would have been snow queen Elsa defending her kingdom of Arendelle from outside attack, or something connected to the unexplained maritime death…
Getting Creepy with Netflix 2019
I hope everyone had a fun Halloween and things got a little scary or creepy. As an occasional tradition, I like to pick out a few scary movies to watch around this time. However, as I’ve said before, I am a chicken when it comes to truly gory or malevolent horror. I am satisfied with…
Captain Marvel – Movie Review
As excited as I was to get more heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it was more “Guardians of the Galaxy”-style cosmic adventures that I was really anticipating. Captain Marvel’s debut movie started out by dropping us into the middle of her day as a Starforce operative on the Kree homeworld of Hala (very far…
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – Movie Review
After three movies and three TV series, the story of Hiccup, Toothless, and the rest of the clan finally comes to an end. While I would have thought that the last movie in the trilogy would have been a huge blow-out, with epic action and similarly epic storylines, The Hidden World is disappointingly ordinary. The…
Summer Movie Catch-Up 2018 part 2
Unfortunately I’m not making it through a lot of movies, but here’s the second batch of movies that I’ve watched as part of my summer catch-up exercise (including recent genre hits, and Studio Ghibli rewatch). Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Going into this one I had no illusions that it was…
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – Movie Review
As much as I have enjoyed the Jurassic Park franchise, each movie makes me wonder if they’ve exhausted all the premises for getting characters back to face the dinosaurs again. Each time they find a reason, but it’s never a very good one. The action sequences and the visual effects are typically enough to carry…
Ready Player One – Movie Review
The paradox about watching the Ready Player One movie is that I would probably have enjoyed it a lot more if I hadn’t read the book, by Ernest Cline, a few years ago (and then again last month to get psyched for the movie). I had been very much anticipating this movie because the book…
2017 Summer of Sitcom Binge-watching
From my lack of reviews over the summer, it may be obvious that I, like critics and audiences everywhere, think this was the worst summer movie season ever. I only got out to a couple of movies in the theatre, so what have I been doing to satisfy my pop-cultural cravings over the summer? I’ve…
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